Arizona weekly enterprise., 1887-12-10
Local Items.

uCSOn tnls week.
 It really looks as though very wet winter is coming.
 Al. Rieheson is in Phenix, enjoying the prohibition boom.
 The stores are displaying fine array of gaudy holiday goods.
 Mir. Aaron Mason went to California last Tuesday, on business matters.
 The lat rains destroyed many adobes that were not protected from the weather.
 A circus is billed to appear at Casa Grande next Friday night, December l6th.
 Mir L. B. Van Burt, the man of bever- ages, paid Florence visit this week Tn a business way.
 Dr. w. L. Wardwell and Mrs. T. D. Hammond went to Silver King by We'd nesday's stage.
 Mir. J. B. Remy has 5000 grape roots, lot of ornamental trees and potted Ger raniums for salo.
 Mir. R. c. Brown of the ENTERPRISE,
 
 absent a couple of weeks.
 The Georgia Minstrels have been re- freshing the cultured people of Tucson with plantation melodies.
 Frank Wagoner, of Tucson, passe through Florence on Sunday, en route to Salt river valley to locate.
 MT. George Morse has leased the Montezuma ranch of Mir. F. l.. Austin, and will cultivate it this year.
 Mrs. B. J. Drew has leased Sheriff Fryer's residence and will open board ing house therein in short time.
 J. J. Hyde has sold the Mohave Min CT to F. c. Funston. Mr. F. has had charge of the paper for long time.
 Mir. Chas F. Hof, representing Messrs. c. Seligmann & O., Tucson, came ill on Thursday to interv jew the merchants.
 Mir. W. c. Smith came up from Casa Grands again on Thursday evening to look after his property interests here.
 The Otero ditch in the Santa Cruz val ley near Canoa, is to be pushed to com pletion and the money is put up to build it.
 Hon. P. R. Brady has let contract for the erection of two dwelling hou ses, on his block between Pinal and Bailey street.
 Mir. c. T. Shaw came down from the Reymert camp on Thursday and went to Quiiotoas, where he will reside in the future.
 The roads have improved greatly with the return of pleasant weather and the stages and freight teams now make regu- lar time.
 Mir. J. Champion, the owner of the Casa Grande lumber yards, was in town this week, looking after his extensive interests here.
 Mir. Omer Richie and family left on on Tuesday for the Vekol camp. They will probably stop in Casa Grande day or two en route.
 There will be election of officers by Florence Lodge No. 4, A. o. U. w., to- night and every member in good stand ing should attend.
 It is rumored that two or three Pinal irrepressibles come to grief few days ago for playing an embarrassing practical joke upon newly married man.
 Christmas will be along just two weeks from to- morrow if it arrives on schedule time, and it will be as big day in Flor ence as anywhere else in the world.
 Misses Emily A Squires and Bessie Marshall came up from Casa Grande on Monday to attend the teachers examin- ation. They returned home Wednes- day.
 Mir. J. P. Gabriel came down from Riverside on Tuesday and left the next day with Mir. Hinson Thomas for Quiiotoa. They will be absent about four or five days.
 In the gardens upon the higher lands in the southern part of Florence the frost has scarcely injured vegetation and toma- to vines are as bright and green as in the summer season.
 The Reymert mill after a successful run, shut down on Thursday for a few necessary repairs that require only a day or two to make. The Reymert is now a steady producer.
 Messrs. c. Seligmann & Co.,, of Tue. son, have secured the agency of the cele. brated Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company of Milwaukee, bottled beer, and will sup. ply the trade at satisfactory prices. Mir. Oscar P. Atwood, the efficient and popular teacher of the Silver King pub lie school, left for his home yesterday, having visited Florence for the purpose of appearing before the board of schoo examiners.
 Wild ducks of all kinds are plentiful along the river and sportsmen have nc difficulty in bagging dozen or two ir half days hunt. The game is in prim, condition and some of the big mallard and canvas-bac are particularly excel lent.
 Hon. P. R. Brady left on Sunday il his private conveyance for Tucson to ge millwright to place his Touring mill il good working order. The pretehde, mechanic he employed turned out n. g. and considera ble of the machinery vii have to be remodeled and readjusted.
 Mir. T. M. Daulton, of Silver King, lief on Thursday for Seattle, Washington